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Hi Silvie,

Sounds like fun but, no, I won’t be making it down for that event. We have got to get back to work around these parts.

Too much summer! We have been spoiled.

One of my favorite 80’s bands stories surrounds Flock of Seagulls, I remember that I recently recounted it, so I hope that it wasn’t in this thread or I’ll really feel like an old-timer.

Anyway, Flock of Seagulls was probably one of the loudest acts that I have ever seen or heard. Just thinking about that band makes my ears ring.

I caught them during a show at the Tower Theatre in Philly possibly 1983 (I believe that they were opening for Human League supporting the DARE LP). I wasn’t real into FoS and had to get uprange of the blasting sound system, I go into the back and try to order a cup of soda from one of the concessioners. No one else is in line and I walk right up to the counter. I look at this girl and we kind of shrug and motion at our ears that the band is so unbelievably loud. So loud, in fact that this girl can not even hear me when I scream that I’d like a coke in her ear several times. Eventually, we kind of chuckle and I pantomime what I’d like and she figures it out and we make the transaction.

Again, we kind of smile and laugh about how amazingly loud these guys are and she puts the soda down on the glass countertop, where it begins to walk its way across the glass in a matter of seconds before I can snatch the cup up off the edge of the counter.

That was loud.

Incidentally, FoS is probably #1 among bands that I have seen, while never having wanted to; I believe that I have seen them perform 3 or 4 times opening for a really odd assortment of bands from the concert and venue that I mentioned to seeing them open for the Go-Go’s at the Spectrum in Philly to seeing them open for Echo and the Bunnymen.

I simply never liked the band and was sort of dumbstruck by whatever the attraction was, other than the hair and the volume.

Anway, have a great time at the show and let us know how it goes? Make sure that you and your little guy get dressed up in some 80’s kitsch costume - with the Souixie and the Banshees or Adam Ant styled eyeliner - and don’t forget to post the pics here!

Have fun! ;0)